VS Code: Multi-Chat Sessions Mature
Agent Host sessions shifted from single chats to independent multi-chat stacks with per-chat folders, workspaces and UI. Composer alignment, picker fixes, and sandbox and reliability hardening rounded out the day.
Duration: PT2M51S
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from VS Code.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: VS Code
- Published: 2026-09-22T13:08:28Z
- Audio duration: PT2M51S
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Good morning, it's Tuesday, September 22nd, 2026, and here's what's happening in VS Code.
The big pattern is Agent Host sessions becoming a stack of independent chats, each with its own folders, changes, and interface state.
That foundation landed in layers. PR 337035 models the session workspace as an aggregate and each chat as a subset, pinning chats before the workspace expands and persisting folder assignments. PR 337166 adds ownership for additional detached worktrees so archive and delete stay consistent, without changing creation…
The windowing is catching up. PR 337079 renders side-by-side chats in single mode as independent panes with chat-scoped headers, and follow-up 337135 keeps ordinary peers from piling up behind each other. An open change, 337263, would scope changesets to the owning chat. The developer impact is less cross-chat…
Second theme is Agents Window polish. PR 337149 aligns running mode, approval, model and context usage controls with the experimental composer layout, plus focus commands and an opt-in session footer. PR 337095 fixes workspace picker edge cases for remote and workspace-less chats. PR 337237 groups subagent status…
Finally, correctness. PR…
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